Improvement in inhalers



J'. S. LETTS INHALER.

No.180,043 Patented July 18, 18 76 N PETERS, FHOTO-LITHOGNAPHER WASHINGTON D C UNITED STATES PATENT QFFIGE.

JEREMIAH S. LETTS, OF RIPON, WISCONSIN.

IMPROVEMENT IN INHALERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 180,043, dated July 18, 1876 application filed March 4, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JEREMIAH S. LET'IS, of Ripon, State of Wisconsin, have invented certain Improvements in Inhalers, the construction and operation of which I will now proceed to explain, reference being'had to the annexed drawing, in which- Figure l is a vertical sectional view of my device.

In the drawing, A B O-are bottles arranged in a row, and to be kept generally in a case, to render them easily to be handled. The bot-' tles A B 0 are connected together by the bent tubes 8 and w. The corks of the bottleshave caps of rubber c to pack around the tubes, to render them tight. ,The *rubber packing c is covered by the metal cap n, to hold it on firmly. The caps, packing, and corks, are perforated to admit of the passage of the tubes .70 and s, and the mouth-piece 6, through them.

In arranging the apparatus for use, about one dram of chemically-pure muriatic acid is put in bottle 0'. In bottle .8 a mixture of soft-water and ammonia, in about the proportion of ten or twelve drops of ammonia to an ounce of water. Tube x is then filled with cotton or other porous substance,- and saturated with iodine or carbolate of iodine.

By inhaling, by means of the mouth-piece c, the air-is drawn into bottle 0 at the vent z; thence in the direction of thearrows to the mouth.

. The patient gets the benefitof the healing qualities ofthe vapor of muriate of ammonia charged with the iodine.

"A is'a bottle used to catch the drippings of 0 is a valve to cotton to 'hold iodine, said bottles A, B, and

0 being fitted with perforated metal and rubber caps, all constructed, operating, and arranged as and for the purposes set forth.

J. s. LETTS.

Witnesses THos. H. HUIGHINS, WM. AoKER. 

